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These projects and milestones are what we discuss and update weekly during our SitRep

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🔮 Protocol Opportunities

Name	Status	Quarter	DRI	Date	OKR
Implement it (MVP)	✅	2023Q1	Kubuxu	February 20, 2023 → February 24, 2023
Integration with existing libraries	✅	2023Q2	Kubuxu
User Friendly API	✅	2023Q1	Kubuxu	February 27, 2023 → March 10, 2023
First prototype for inclusion proofs during computation of CommP	✅	2023Q1	Kubuxu	February 20, 2023 → February 24, 2023
Kuba will complete the two sections (security and design reasoning)	✅		Kubuxu
‣ Commitment Scheme format agreement	✅	2022Q4	Kubuxu	March 19, 2023 → March 19, 2023
‣ Software for generation of data segments inclusion proof	✅	2023Q2	Kubuxu	February 12, 2023 → March 24, 2023
‣ Support for verifying data segment inclusion proofs on-chain	✅	2023Q1	Kubuxu	February 12, 2023 → March 17, 2023
Data Prepapers API Standard	🔴	2023Q1	Kubuxu
SubPieceCID Registry smart contract with Merkle trees verification	🔴	2023Q2	Kubuxu
Support Delta (ex-Estuary) integration	✅	2023Q2	Kubuxu	May 29, 2023 → June 2, 2023	KR11: 3 players using verifiable off-chain data aggregation and market for subpieces
Support DagHouse integration	🔵	2023Q2	Kubuxu	March 15, 2023 → June 15, 2023	KR11: 3 players using verifiable off-chain data aggregation and market for subpieces
Support FVM via On-chain Aggregator	🔵	2023Q3	Kubuxu	May 15, 2023 → June 29, 2023	KR11: 3 players using verifiable off-chain data aggregation and market for subpieces
Support Lighthouse integration	🔵	2023Q2	Kubuxu	May 29, 2023 → June 17, 2023	KR11: 3 players using verifiable off-chain data aggregation and market for subpieces
proposal	✅	2023Q2	Deleted User	May 2, 2023 → June 2, 2023	KR5: Launch Cryptonet Intelligence and publish 3 reports on Filecoin to align opportunities in the network
Publish blog post	✅	2023Q2	Deleted User	May 8, 2023 → June 9, 2023
SP ROI calculator connected to data sources	✅	2023Q3	Nicola	March 20, 2023 → June 30, 2023	KR5: Launch Cryptonet Intelligence and publish 3 reports on Filecoin to align opportunities in the network
Protocol Design and implementation	🔴
Doc on NI-PoRep with Nova (by FilCrypto)	🔵
‣ NI-PoRep technical analysis	Not started
‣ Analyze NI-PoRep risks	🔵
NI-PoRep FIP discussion	Not started
‣ Explore NI-PoRep w/ ad hoc circuits	🔵
CryptoEcon Feedback	🔵
Estimate input blowup	🔵
Estimate proving costs wrt today considering SN improvements and NI Proving overhead	Not started
Estimate gas costs compared with today	Not started
Analyze of SaaS benefits	Not started
Estimating Proving costs overhead	Not started
Determine a killer application for PoA	Not started
Doc clarifying PoA and FIL+ interaction	Not started
Fil-PoA FIP discussion out	Not started
Fil-PoA FIP out	Not started
	Not started
Optimistic Commitment Translation	Not started	2023Q4	Kubuxu	August 1, 2023 → December 29, 2023
	Not started
‣ 🎯 Direct data onboarding & FIL+ technical design	🔵	2023Q3	Alex North		KR9: Remove the top bottleneck for data onboarding via ready to deploy FIPs by reducing costs and reduce complexity (we will decide based on prioritization: e.g. early deal activation, separation of deals from sectors)
Proposal/FIP for deal collateral (discuss #719)	✅	2023Q2	Alex North
Implementation of direct FIL+	🔵	2023Q3	Alex North
‣ Replacement Sealing Forcing Function & PoRep Security Policy (FIP-47prime)	🔵	2023Q3	Kubuxu	October 1, 2022 → June 19, 2023	KR1: No known unaddressed high severity protocol and cryptography issues (including Cron safety) KR3: An updated security model for Proof of Space and QAP pricing security is published
FIP for Synthetic PoRep	✅	2023Q1	Irene	March 31, 2023 → April 7, 2023
Draft ideas to make SnapDeal cheaper	✅	2023Q1	Luca	February 10, 2023
FIP-0047 and code are ready	✅	2022Q4	Kubuxu	October 1, 2022 → December 22, 2022	KR1: No known unaddressed high severity protocol and cryptography issues (including Cron safety)
Planning session to understand timeline	🔴	2023Q1	Kubuxu
Create the model for cost/profit to compare CC sector upgrade with deal sector strategy	✅	2023Q1	Luca	March 20, 2023 → April 1, 2023	KR7: Leverage CC-Sector upgrade pipeline to onboard XXX storage (via SaaS, Snapdealv2, etc)
Report about model and findings	✅	2023Q2	Luca	May 1, 2023 → June 12, 2023	KR7: Leverage CC-Sector upgrade pipeline to onboard XXX storage (via SaaS, Snapdealv2, etc)
‣ Removal of Batch Balancer through Onboarding Fees	🔵	2023Q3	Kubuxu	June 12, 2023 → July 25, 2023	KR9: Remove the top bottleneck for data onboarding via ready to deploy FIPs by reducing costs and reduce complexity (we will decide based on prioritization: e.g. early deal activation, separation of deals from sectors)
‣ Fil-PoA: Filecoin Proof of Access	🔵	2023Q4	Luca
‣ Understand if Fil-PoA is worth Pursuing	Not started
‣ ⭕ Non Interactive PoRep	🔵	2023Q4	Luca
Align with Fil-Crypto on circuit compatibility	🔵
NI-PoRep FIP	Not started
Deploy NI-PoRep	Not started
‣ 🤝 Filecoin cross-chain interoperability	🟡	2023Q4	Alex North		KR10: Concrete proposal to enable Export Filecoin into other chains
‣ L2 Deal Market	🟡	2023Q4	Kubuxu	May 8, 2023 → October 31, 2023	KR9: Remove the top bottleneck for data onboarding via ready to deploy FIPs by reducing costs and reduce complexity (we will decide based on prioritization: e.g. early deal activation, separation of deals from sectors)
‣ Scaling FIL+ VC Allocation	🟣	2023Q3		May 1, 2023 → June 30, 2023
‣ Verifiable Off-chain Data Aggregation	✅	2023Q2	Kubuxu		KR11: 3 players using verifiable off-chain data aggregation and market for subpieces
‣ 🦿 Synthetic PoRep	✅	2023Q2	Irene	March 24, 2023 → June 30, 2023
Built-in actors API for user-programmed actors	✅	2022Q4	Kubuxu
‣ (security) Short term fix for Cron	✅	2023Q1	Alex North		KR1: No known unaddressed high severity protocol and cryptography issues (including Cron safety)
‣ 📡 Cryptonet intelligence - Observability	🔴	2023Q2	Deleted User	May 2, 2023	KR5: Launch Cryptonet Intelligence and publish 3 reports on Filecoin to align opportunities in the network
Working group kickoff	✅	2023Q2	Deleted User	May 29, 2023 → June 5, 2023	KR5: Launch Cryptonet Intelligence and publish 3 reports on Filecoin to align opportunities in the network
‣ 🥁 SnapDeal v2	🔴	2023Q2	Luca	March 31, 2023
‣ Data Onboarding Pipeline	🔴	2023Q2	Irene		KR9: Remove the top bottleneck for data onboarding via ready to deploy FIPs by reducing costs and reduce complexity (we will decide based on prioritization: e.g. early deal activation, separation of deals from sectors)
FIP for Deal Pre-activation (based on ad-hoc collateral)	🔴	2023Q2	Irene
Gather initial feedback about the design for deals larger than sectors	✅	2023Q2	Irene	April 3, 2023 → May 1, 2023
Identify opportunities	✅	2023Q2	Irene	February 1, 2023 → May 22, 2023
Background research on consensus/snapshot/finality options	🟡	2023Q2	Alex North		KR10: Concrete proposal to enable Export Filecoin into other chains
Design & analysis for consensus changes for interop	Not started	2023Q3	Alex North		KR10: Concrete proposal to enable Export Filecoin into other chains
‣ 🏦 Pledge Collateral Shortfall	🔴	2023Q2	Alex North	March 17, 2023 → June 30, 2023	KR6: Short-term liquidity issue addressed (pledge shortfall)
‣ Repeatedly updatable storage ("Re-snap")	🔴	2023Q2	Kubuxu
(advising) 🍝 FilFil: PeSto and Filecoin Archive	🔴	2023Q2	Irene	March 31, 2023
Define the mechanism for charging fees	🔵	2023Q3	Kubuxu
Align on the purpose of batch balancer and onboarding fees	🔵	2023Q3	Kubuxu
Strategy and roadmap update with Andrew and David	🔴	2023Q3	Deleted User	July 25, 2023 → August 4, 2023
New dashboards and queries	🔴	2023Q3	Deleted User	June 1, 2023 → July 31, 2023
Implement a first version for concrete benchmarks	🟣	2022Q3
Technical design for deal collateral / data termination	✅	2023Q2	Alex North
Technical design for direct FIL+	✅	2023Q2	Alex North
Proposal/FIP for direct FIL+	🔵	2023Q3	Alex North
alignment on Broker ↔ SP side of the market	Not started	2023Q2	Kubuxu	June 5, 2023 → June 16, 2023	KR9: Remove the top bottleneck for data onboarding via ready to deploy FIPs by reducing costs and reduce complexity (we will decide based on prioritization: e.g. early deal activation, separation of deals from sectors)
Document for L2 Deal Market	🔵	2023Q2	Kubuxu	May 15, 2023 → June 6, 2023	KR9: Remove the top bottleneck for data onboarding via ready to deploy FIPs by reducing costs and reduce complexity (we will decide based on prioritization: e.g. early deal activation, separation of deals from sectors)
‣ Support integration of PoDSI	🔵	2023Q3	Kubuxu	May 15, 2023 → June 29, 2023	KR9: Remove the top bottleneck for data onboarding via ready to deploy FIPs by reducing costs and reduce complexity (we will decide based on prioritization: e.g. early deal activation, separation of deals from sectors)
Publish specs for public discussion	✅	2023Q2	Alex North	April 12, 2023 → May 20, 2023
Implement the model	✅	2023Q2	Luca	April 10, 2023 → May 1, 2023	KR7: Leverage CC-Sector upgrade pipeline to onboard XXX storage (via SaaS, Snapdealv2, etc)
Synthetic PoRep is ready to be deployed	✅	2023Q2	Irene	May 8, 2023 → June 30, 2023
Obtain cost estimation for the different solutions	✅	2023Q2	Luca	April 3, 2023
Documentation	✅	2023Q2	Kubuxu
Publish FIP-0047 replacement (FIP-47’)	✅	2023Q2	Kubuxu	April 10, 2023 → June 19, 2023	KR3: An updated security model for Proof of Space and QAP pricing security is published KR1: No known unaddressed high severity protocol and cryptography issues (including Cron safety)
Figure out design to avoid FIP-0047 after all	✅	2023Q1	Kubuxu	January 10, 2023 → March 15, 2023	KR1: No known unaddressed high severity protocol and cryptography issues (including Cron safety)
Code	✅	2023Q1	Alex North
Create the FIP for SnapDeal v2	🔴	2023Q2	Luca	April 2, 2023
Gather initial feedback from SPs	✅	2023Q2	Luca	March 31, 2023
Short-term FIP is shipped	✅	2023Q1	Alex North
Short-term FIP is in the public	✅	2023Q1	Alex North
Gather initial feedback from SP	✅	2023Q1	Alex North	May 17, 2023 → May 24, 2023
Resolve int overflow TODOs	✅	2023Q2	Kubuxu
Export Format	✅	2023Q2	Kubuxu
Storage Format	✅	2023Q2	Kubuxu	February 27, 2023 → March 10, 2023
Testing	✅	2023Q2	Kubuxu	February 27, 2023 → March 10, 2023

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📖 Research Enablers

Name	Status	Quarter	DRI	Date	OKR
Have 5 Network Grants	✅	2022Q4	Deleted User
Have 5 more Network Grants and 1 External Event	🔴	2023Q1	Deleted User
Have 5 more Network Grants and 1 more External Event	🔴	2023Q2	Deleted User
Have 5 more Network Grants	🔴	2023Q3	Deleted User
‣ Testudo77 v0.1: Initial performance prediction	✅	2022Q4	Deleted User
‣ Testudo77 v0.2: Basic research done	✅	2022Q4	Deleted User
‣ Testudo81 v0.3: De-risking Filecoin deployment	✅	2023Q1	Deleted User
‣ Testudo81 v1: Ready for writing proofs	🔴	2023Q2	Deleted User
‣ Testudo81 Filecoin Proofs live on testnet	🔴	2023Q2	Deleted User
‣ Testudo81 Filecoin Proofs live on mainnet	🔴	2023Q3	Deleted User
Testudo is audited	🔴	2023Q4		August 31, 2023
Testudo is launched into Filecoin	🔴	2023Q4		September 30, 2023
Filecoin Proofs are written for Testudo	🔴			May 31, 2023
FIP for adding support to Testudo Proofs	🔴			May 31, 2023
Paper is public	✅	2023Q2	Deleted User	March 1, 2023 → June 19, 2023
New proofs are live in Filecoin Testnet	🔴			June 30, 2023
Add Ability to support circuits	🔴	2023Q1		March 31, 2023
Verification circuit for Testudo	🔴	2023Q1		March 31, 2023
More optimizations if needed	🔴	2023Q2		April 30, 2023
Aggregation feature implemented	🔴	2023Q2		June 30, 2023
Trusted setup is finalized	🔴	2023Q2		May 31, 2023
Can we design a Trusted Setup for Testudo?	✅	2023Q1		February 28, 2023
Backward compatible solution BLS12-381 designed	✅	2023Q1		February 28, 2023
Can Bellperson speed ups make Testudo 4x faster than Groth16? (blst+GPU) (low risk)	✅	2023Q2	Deleted User	February 28, 2023
Will the final proof size and verification time be acceptable for Filecoin?	🔴	2023Q2	Deleted User	March 31, 2023
Small universal trusted setup	🔴	2023Q1		January 31, 2023
Establish if the protocol can be used to replace current FIL proofs	✅	2022Q4
Compare protocol to other SNARKS with universal trusted setup	✅	2022Q4
‣ Efficient SNARKs over Vector Committed data	🔴	2023Q2
Make portions of the Filecoin state proof friendly ❓	🔴	2023Q4
Efficient data updatability inside sectors ❓	🔴	2023Q4
Replace Merkle trees with VC in Filecoin PoRep ❓	🔴	2023Q4
Solve BDSC for Plonk with Caulk/Muppets/Baloo	🔴	2022Q4	Anca Nitulescu
Solve BDSC for Groth16(+Testudo) with Caulk	🔴	2022Q4
‣ Design of foundational Vector Commitment schemes	✅	2022Q3	Anca Nitulescu
	🔴	2023Q1	Anca Nitulescu
Implementation of the Lookup Table	🔴	2023Q2	Anca Nitulescu
Pebbling PoS: SDR and NSE improvements and tighter analysis	🔵	2023Q3	Matteo Campanelli	April 1, 2023 → June 30, 2023	KR2: A new team is assembled to propose a formal model, gather requirements and ship an early design for a new Proof of Space to de-risk SDR aging
PoS: new page for educational material	✅	2023Q2	Anca Nitulescu	May 8, 2023 → May 26, 2023	KR4: A new proof of space website with educational material attracts 10 different groups
	✅	2023Q3	Deleted User	June 5, 2023 → July 21, 2023	KR4: A new proof of space website with educational material attracts 10 different groups
	✅	2023Q2	Deleted User	June 5, 2023 → July 6, 2023	KR4: A new proof of space website with educational material attracts 10 different groups
‣ 🛠️ Enabling Filecoin Client Data Usage	🔴	2023Q3		May 20, 2023 → June 30, 2023	KR12: Demo of verifiable computation over Filecoin data
‣ ⚖️ Translations Proofs	🔴	2023Q2	Deleted User	March 24, 2023 → May 30, 2023	KR12: Demo of verifiable computation over Filecoin data
‣ 🔭 🛠️ New Proof of Space Constructions	🔵	2023Q3	Matteo Campanelli	March 1, 2023 → September 30, 2023	KR2: A new team is assembled to propose a formal model, gather requirements and ship an early design for a new Proof of Space to de-risk SDR aging
New paper with new results (includes Proof of Space Model and Technical Primer)	🔵	2023Q3	Matteo Campanelli	July 23, 2023 → October 15, 2023	KR2: A new team is assembled to propose a formal model, gather requirements and ship an early design for a new Proof of Space to de-risk SDR aging
‣ 🔭 Proof of Space: educational material	🔵	2023Q3	Anca Nitulescu	April 17, 2023 → May 26, 2023	KR4: A new proof of space website with educational material attracts 10 different groups
Outreach	✅	2023Q2	Anca Nitulescu	May 22, 2023 → August 4, 2023	KR4: A new proof of space website with educational material attracts 10 different groups
‣ 🛡️ Testudo	✅	2023Q2	Deleted User
‣ Network Grants Program paused	✅	2023Q1	Deleted User
‣ Vector Commitments for Proof of Space and Merkle Trees	🔴	2023Q4	Anca Nitulescu
Linear-map VC: unify all the great properties of different VC	✅	2022Q2	Anca Nitulescu
Caulk: Vector commitments that can have linkability property	✅	2022Q2	Anca Nitulescu
Muppets: Vector commitment that has trade-offs between computation and space	✅	2022Q3	Anca Nitulescu
Blog post on Testudo	✅	2023Q1	Deleted User	February 27, 2023 → March 27, 2023
‣ 🔍 Lookup SNARK (for SHA)	🔴	2023Q4	Anca Nitulescu
‣ Privacy-Preserving Content Routing	🔴	2022Q4	Anca Nitulescu
🖇️ New Vector Commitment	🔴		Deleted User
Outreach: talk on Proofs of Space @ Latincrypt affiliated event	🔵	2023Q3	Matteo Campanelli	September 4, 2023 → October 3, 2023
Paper: more efficient rational proofs (grant)	🔵	2023Q3	Matteo Campanelli	June 1, 2023 → October 31, 2023
Minimal changes to Groth16 to make Signature of knowledge	Not started		Anca Nitulescu
Bring content from Proof of Space days online	Not started
Paper: Polynomial Evaluation for PoUS Execution Stage (grant)	🔵	2023Q3	Matteo Campanelli	April 1, 2023 → October 31, 2023
‣ Research explorations	🔵
Complete Background and Generic Proof of Space	🔵	2023Q3	Anca Nitulescu
Updated home page	✅	2023Q2	Anca Nitulescu	June 14, 2023 → July 6, 2023	KR4: A new proof of space website with educational material attracts 10 different groups
Interviews planning and video production setup	🔵	2023Q2	Deleted User	May 30, 2023 → July 31, 2023
Possible avenues to radical New PoS (and new space-hardness assumptions)	⚪️	2023Q3	Matteo Campanelli	May 15, 2023 → July 31, 2023	KR2: A new team is assembled to propose a formal model, gather requirements and ship an early design for a new Proof of Space to de-risk SDR aging
2nd iteration of the PoS website	✅	2023Q2	Anca Nitulescu	May 29, 2023 → June 7, 2023	KR4: A new proof of space website with educational material attracts 10 different groups
Onboarding devs on Testudo	🔴	2023Q2	Deleted User
➿ Curve Agnostic Hash Translation	✅	2023Q2	Deleted User	April 24, 2023 → May 10, 2023	KR12: Demo of verifiable computation over Filecoin data
➰ Direct Translation Exploration	✅	2023Q2	Deleted User	April 24, 2023 → May 10, 2023	KR12: Demo of verifiable computation over Filecoin data
Paper	✅	2023Q2	Deleted User	March 27, 2023 → May 31, 2023
‣ Outreach And Collaboration	✅	2023Q2	Deleted User	March 26, 2023 → April 7, 2023
The new doc needs feedback https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cuOeos7MT7ZAJWtPB3OS8us0v25fsHdp/view?usp=sharing	🔴	2022Q3	Nicola
New formal Research Statement	✅	2022Q3	Anca Nitulescu
Testudo77: Implementation: Batching + Aggregation	🔴	2023Q2
Create open problem page to open the problem to the community	🔴	2023Q1	Matteo Campanelli	March 13, 2023 → March 13, 2023
Theory: Computational commitment de-risked	✅	2023Q1	Matteo Campanelli	February 24, 2023
Theory: Aggregation protocol	✅	2023Q2	Deleted User
Code documentation	🔴	2023Q1	Mara Mihali	February 17, 2023

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📗 Intelligence

Name	Status	Quarter	DRI	Date	OKR
Analysis of network forks and power changes	🟡	2023Q3
‣ ↗️ [2023Q2] CC Sector Upgrade: Guidelines and Modeling	✅	2023Q2	Luca	March 20, 2023 → June 19, 2023	KR7: Leverage CC-Sector upgrade pipeline to onboard XXX storage (via SaaS, Snapdealv2, etc)
Technical Report Proof of Space in Filecoin	🔵	2023Q3	Irene	August 7, 2023 → August 18, 2023	KR3: An updated security model for Proof of Space and QAP pricing security is published
Cryptonet Intelligence website	Not started	2023Q3	Nicola	May 29, 2023 → June 9, 2023	KR5: Launch Cryptonet Intelligence and publish 3 reports on Filecoin to align opportunities in the network
	✅	2023Q2	Irene	May 1, 2023 → May 30, 2023	KR5: Launch Cryptonet Intelligence and publish 3 reports on Filecoin to align opportunities in the network
	🟡	2023Q3	Irene	June 13, 2023 → June 30, 2023	KR3: An updated security model for Proof of Space and QAP pricing security is published
	✅	2023Q2	Irene	March 20, 2023 → April 15, 2023	KR5: Launch Cryptonet Intelligence and publish 3 reports on Filecoin to align opportunities in the network
	✅	2023Q2	Irene	March 6, 2023 → March 31, 2023	KR5: Launch Cryptonet Intelligence and publish 3 reports on Filecoin to align opportunities in the network

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